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The St. Elizabeth Healthcare mobile mammography van will visit several locations throughout Northern Kentucky in March. Following the American Cancer Society's guidelines for the early detection of breast cancer can improve the chances that the disease can be diagnosed at an early stage and can be treated successfully. Women age 40 and over should have a screening mammogram every year. The van will be at the following locations:
• March 19 – from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Walton Pharmacy, 305 Mary Grubbs Highway in Walton
If you plan to hunt in Kentucky, were born after Jan. 1, 1975, then you must attend one of following classes scheduled in Northern Kentucky:
• March 19 – Pendleton County Sportsman's Club, Lock Road, Butler (one day class). Call 859-472-1333 to register.
• August 13 - Lloyd WMA, Highway 491, Crittenden. Bring your lunch or money to purchase food, your own drinks, foul weather gear and glasses if needed. Bring or know all contact information. Call Tracy at 859-472-1333 or Deborah at 859-428-2954 to register.
The annual Lenton Fish Fry has returned to St. William Catholic Church and continues through April 15.
The meal, including battered cod, three sides, cornbread, dessert and a drink will be served from 5 to 8 p.m. at 6 Church Street, off Waterworks Road. The cost is $7.50 per meal.
Phone orders can be called in to 859-866-5107.
March 14, 1996
The Grant Co Extension service put on a Safety and You program at the Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary School. 4-H agent Dan Soliday gave a gun safety lesson to students while 4-H parent Lyndi Sodden taught children about bike safety and the importance of wearing a helmet. Other safety courses taught included fire, farm, pesticides, railroad, higway and home alone safety. A first aid talk was also given.
A four-week nutrition and fitness challenge will once again decide who is Grant County's Biggest Winner.
The healthy lifestyle program, sponsored by Fitness For Life Around Grant County (FFLAG), Northern Kentucky Health Department, Grant County Parks and Recreation and Grant County Extension Service, runs April 4 through April 30.
Registration for the Biggest Winner Challenge will be from 3 to 7 p.m. March 31 and from 2 to 4 p.m. April 3.
The cost if $10 for an individual and $20 for two or more immediate family members.
Table Talk, Caregiver Support Group – for caretakers of medically fragile, elderly and terminally ill patients will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at Grant County Library, 201 Barnes Road in Williamstown. Each month a separate topic such as A Caregiver's Toolbox or Caregiver Fatigue will be featured. Everyone is welcome. Light refreshments will be served. There is no charge to attend.
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Claire & Pretty
Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy just arrived in Toronto. She looks fresh - great highlights, non? - and he looks sooooo...
It's been 2 yrs right? Am in rehearsal right now, can't google, but it seems about right. A much better match than Billy Crudup although am still not convinced Hugh isn't a 'mo -my amazing producer Dean really wants him to be. He said it would make him really happy.
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If LeBron James-size gaffes decided elections, Gov. Rick Scott's campaign is on its way to fouling out.
On Friday, when Miami Heat fans mourned James' decision to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, someone from Scott World had a brilliant idea: Compare the basketball champion to . . . Charlie Crist, Scott's Democratic opponent.
You read that right.
Scott's campaign "attacked" Crist by comparing him to the wildly popular star who led the Heat to four consecutive NBA finals, including two titles.
The logic behind the Scott "attack" is rooted in Crist's terrible 2010 decision to run for U.S. Senate and not seek a second term as governor. Scott World says Crist was trying to escape the state's problems by going to Washington.
"What do these two guys have in common? They both ran away," the campaign said in an email that contained a picture featuring the likenesses of Crist and James.
The Republican Party of Florida shortly thereafter Tweeted out the image with a link to an older attack ad, titled "Run Away," that savaged Crist for the poor economy on his watch.
Judging from many responses on Twitter, Scott World looked clueless at best and pusillanimous at worst.
"Seriously . . . Making more Miami Voters not like you is not the way to go and makes my job harder in Miami-Dade. Work with me!" tweeted Stephen McDuffie, a former college Republican leader.
Daniel Ruoss, a Heat fan and chairman of the Florida Young Republicans, let loose a string of angered responses.
"Send in your applications. @FloridaGOP needs a new social media handler," Ruoss tweeted. "The moron putting out tweets for @FloridaGOP should take a lesson from @JebBush."
That last message linked to the former governor's statement: "All the best to @KingJames as he heads back to Cleveland. We'll miss you in Miami. Thanks for four awesome seasons!"
Fawning responses to Bush followed.
Same with his fellow Miami-Dade Republican, Sen. Marco Rubio, who beat Crist in the 2010 elections and lives in Miami-Dade near Bush: "Thank you to @KingJames for giving us 4 great years! Wish you much success back home in Ohio."
Unlike some Cleveland fans, who burned James' jersey when he left the Cavaliers four years ago, most Heat fans still seem to revere the star for what he did in Miami.
Yes, a few Heat fans said and did stupid things, which were duly noted on the ever-snarky conservative Twitter-aggregator site Twitchy. It relished noting how a number of them called James a "trader" instead of a "traitor."
Twitchy also posted a favorable item on Rubio's classy tweet about James. It stood in stark contrast to another Twitchy post about Scott World's backfire of an effort to stoke ire over Crist by linking him to James.
" 'Your worst tweet ever': Florida GOP compares LeBron James to . . . Charlie Crist?" the headline said, referencing a tweet from a Broward Republican named Sheela VanHoose, who worked in Scott's scheduling office last year.
Annette Taddeo-Goldstein, the Miami-Dade Democrats' chair, piled on with a reference to the racial animus stirred up recently by another basketball figure, the owner of the L.A. Clippers: "Whoa! Did @FloridaGOP just pull a #DonaldSterling? @CharlieCrist @KingJames."
Democrats' attacks are nothing big. But if you're a Republican and Twitchy is mocking you to its 158,000 followers, you have a problem.
Also, the backfiring "attack" on Crist came on the heels of an Associated Press article days before that detailed numerous unforced Scott errors.
Scott's defenders argue it all doesn't matter. It's just Internet and newspaper noise. There's truth to that.
Gaffes usually don't decide elections the way that TV ads do. Scott has paid for about $15 million worth, compared to Crist's $576,000 in ad spending that he began reserving last week.
Now Scott, once badly trailing, is nursing an inside-the-error-margin lead over Crist in some polls. Crist has also had his share of missteps, notably the former Republican's decision not to debate longtime Democrat and rival for the nomination Nan Rich.
Crist is almost guaranteed a win in the Democratic primary. But the general election is likely to be close. Every little slip can cost a vote or two.
In that context, Twitter and social media at large, and the nuts and bolts of campaigning and message-discipline, all matter.
The backfiring "attack" on Crist speaks to a deeper problem for Scott World: It's hyper-aggressive, views criticism (no matter how constructive) as disloyal, and frustrates fellow Republicans time and again — most notably Coral Gables billionaire Mike Fernandez, a million-dollar Scott contributor who quit his role as top campaign fundraiser earlier this year in frustration at what he saw as dysfunction.
Scott World also unwittingly reinforces its own negatives about the governor and the campaign. It has had its share of criticism for being populated by out-of-state advisors and operatives — some of whom live in or have close ties to Washington's political class.
Aside from whether the LeBron James backfire buttresses the out-of-stater narrative, it's quite a feat to attack the longtime Floridian Crist for wanting to "run away" from the state when Scott World is populated by many who are A) not from here or B) not intending to stay here or C) both.
It's clear what should run away from Florida politics: over-the-top sports hysterics.
Take that stuff to Cleveland, where it — like LeBron James — belongs.


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Chaos and Community: Embracing Mumbai and Goa, India
Traveling to India is both glorious and, well, a little intimidating. For even the most seasoned adventurer, this vibrant nation teeming with people, flavors and energy can seem more complex than other destinations, especially when it comes to trip planning. But even though cultural, religious and plain old logistical differences abound, a passage to India can be the most exciting journey you'll ever take.
Having traveled to northern India in 2010, I gained a good sense of just how helpful both patience and flexibility can be upon booking a flight to this country of 1.2 billion souls. One learns very quickly that in India everything from transportation and lodging, to dining and attractions sometimes can be not just confusing, but bewildering - especially for a solo traveler, and perhaps more so for a solo lesbian.
Not one to be easily daunted, this year I was called back for a second visit to this exotic land, this time to Mumbai with a side trip to the state of Goa. Both locales have tourist-friendly reputations, and because I have a pair of queer friends in Mumbai I was especially eager to check out this city rapidly emerging as a world capital, complete with a burgeoning gay scene.
Right away I learned that "Mumbai" is really only what tourists and maps call the city. Locals stick with the former British-colonial moniker of Bombay, and South Bombay - at the far tip of the peninsula that comprises the city - is the central location for an easier visit.
Apollo Bunder
The bustling neighborhood of Apollo Bunder is home to the city's greatest concentration of attractions. There you'll find artistic and architectural treasures including the Prince of Wales Museum, Victoria Terminus and Crawford Market. (Note: These and other major attractions have been officially renamed in honor of Indian leaders; but for the purpose of this article I'm employing their British names, which remain common in most maps and guidebooks.)
Apollo Bunder, Colaba and adjacent neighborhoods are chock-full of quintessentially Indian sights, many of them walking distance apart, or at least a cheap taxi ride. Speaking of taxis, all of them in Mumbai are equipped with fare meters. However, most cab drivers prefer not to use meters especially in tourist areas - so upon hailing a taxi, be sure to pre-negotiate your fare before climbing into the back seat, whether it's a long or short distance. If you're coming from the airport, head to the Meru Cabs counter (or reserve in advance) to book a set-rate, air-conditioned taxi to your destination.
To get my geographic bearings, I headed out from my well-located, hip and affordable Gordon House Hotel to the Gateway of India - a commemorative stone arch and one of Bombay's most-visited landmarks. The Gateway marks the pier from which ferries carry throngs to the Elephanta Caves, home to 7th-century Hindu rock carvings. It is also across the street from one of the world's most stunning and elite accommodations, the Taj Mahal Palace. Though famous from the day construction began in 1898, the hotel gained global attention in 2008 when terrorists attacked it and 11 other nearby sites. Today the renowned hotel stands restored to its full glory and starting at about $500 per night, you too can sleep where celebrities and world leaders lay their heads. As an alternative, just stop by for affordable afternoon tea at the elegant Sea Lounge.
Dining and Shopping
There's no shortage of dining options in Apollo Bunder, but I was sure not to miss Bade Miya, an open-air street stall just behind the Taj Mahal Palace, famous for its tantalizingly fresh chicken tikka and other grilled delectables. On the main drag that is Colaba Causeway, I enjoyed classic Indian fare cooked to perfection at Café Leopold, where I also saw the preserved bullet holes and broken glass from the 2008 terrorist attacks - both creepy and fascinating.
Colaba Causeway is the best place to catch up on your shopping for souvenirs, textiles, shoes, bags, and basically everything you could ever want to buy in India. Just remember to negotiate especially from stall vendors-a good rule of thumb is to start by offering less than half of whatever they're asking. Or better yet, have an Indian friend negotiate for you.
South Bombay
My two lesbian friends, like most locals, live nowhere near South Bombay. This made for a great way to experience Bandra West, a mainly residential neighborhood further north that's home to much of Mumbai's Bollywood community. Where there is filmmaking, there are queers, so my gal pals also invited me to join a Gaysi Family community screening and event in their 'hood, Santacruz West. Several dozen gays and their friends packed a small community-center room to view and discuss a pair of short films about transgender life in Pakistan, with far more folks joining later on for a larger political Q&A about the country's pivotal May 2014 elections.
Gaysi is one of a handful of invaluable organizations helping to galvanize the local LGBT community. Gay Bombay, Humsafar Trust, Mumbai Queer Film Festival, and Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action are others steadily gaining prominence thanks to their social, cultural, health, and political endeavors. Check out their respective websites, or visit Time Out Mumbai for a look at upcoming gay and lesbian events and queer resources.
With its 20 million citizens and boundless life force, Mumbai is inarguably one of the world's most exciting cities. But perhaps what's most intriguing about this buzzing subcontinent capital is how it manages to be both a time capsule of a convoluted past, and a harbinger of India's sparkly, trendsetting future. My friend Urvashi Joneja, who happens to be one of India's emerging haute fashion designers, summed it up well: "Bombay is like a city of a thousand villages, only those villages are like each of the world's great cities thrown into one giant cauldron, and are cooking up something spectacular."
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Goa Getaway
For years I'd heard that Goa was the weekend beach-getaway capital of India. Being a fan of such leisure-filled escapes, I decided to check out this lovely seaside state for myself. The first thing I noticed about the state capital of Panjim ("Panaji" in Hindi) was the abundant tourist attractions - including ubiquitous floating casinos on the Mondovi River. Even more surprising was the European architectural influence, a leftover from the four centuries of Portuguese rule that ended in 1961, and that makes it a longtime stop on the Catholic-pilgrimage circuit.
Head to Panjim's Latin Quarter to shack up at the historic Hospedaria Abrigo de Botelho, where you'll be walking distance from the city's riverfront, night markets, and attractions like the Immaculate Conception Church and Goa State Museum. You can also hop in a taxi, or a rickshaw if you're daring, to visit Old Goa's must-see Basilica de Bom Jesus, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the final resting place of St. Francis Xavier, whose preserved body is on display.
"Miami Beach of India"
But Goa is famous for its beaches, so many high- and low-end resorts can be found lining the Arabian-Sea coastline. Cruise south to Majorda or Colva for beach day trips, or surf activities from sailing to jet skiing to fishing. Or take the luxury up a few notches by lodging at the Goa Marriott Resort and Spa, on Panjim's Miramar Beach. More pampering still awaits you at the five-star Grand Hyatt Goa in nearby Bambolim.
While Goa remains a relatively religious state between its heavy Catholic, Muslim and Hindu influences, word has it that both Dona Paula and Baga Beaches are the best places to catch some of the local gay vibe. But if Goa's reputation as the "Miami Beach of India," paired with an old-school hippie influence, continues to shape this fast-evolving destination, who knows what gay old times lie ahead?


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On the Horizon: Upcoming Nordic and Randonee Races
This winter, Nordic skiers of all abilities and styles will gather at Nordic ski areas across the state for heels-free fun and competition. Here's what you can look forward to:
Dec. 31 through Feb. 25
Trapp Family Lodge Cross-Country Ski Center
Trapp Nordic Cup Time Trial Series (Every Tuesday for 10 weeks)
This 10-week series with prizes for both skate and classic is a great introduction to Nordic racing for the beginner and awesome training for the experienced skier. Cost is $60 for the series or $8 per race. Compete each week on a marked course with timing and start area. Pick your start time each day between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Jan. 4
Rikert Nordic Center
Dion/Rikert 5K Snowshoe Race
Part of a series, snowshoe racing puts a different spin on winter. Fast-paced fun—use your own snowshoes or try a racing pair.
Tuesdays, Jan. 7 through March 11
Craftsbury Outdoor Center
Weekly Tuesday Races
Craftsbury enters its second year of weekly cross-country races. As was the case last year, the center will offer traditional and self-timed versions, both counting toward the overall points series. Races will primarily be mass starts.
Jan. 10
Jay Peak Resort
Jay Peak Rando & Snow Leopard Challenge
The Jay Peak Rando is taking one large step forward this winter. The US Ski Mountaineering Association has sanctioned the course as a Category II, which means the course needs to be approximately 4,000 feet vertical, have 5 to 10 transitions, be 50 percent off-piste, and be under three hours for the winning time. The 2014 course will have 4,000 feet vertical, six transitions, two boot packs, along with multiple bumps and off-piste climbs/descents.
Jan. 11
Smugglers' Notch Resort
Winter Trails Day at Smugglers' Notch Resort
A celebration of snowshoeing and cross-country skiing, free for those new to both sports. Smugglers' Nordic Ski and Snowshoe Adventure Center will provide free rentals and offer short instructional sessions from noon until 4 p.m. for first-time snowshoers and cross-country skiers.
Jan. 11
Trapp Family Lodge
Race to the Cabin
The Race to the Cabin is a 5K classic point-to-point beginning at the Trapp Family Lodge Outdoor Center and ending at the Slayton Pasture Cabin. The race is mass start and self-seeded. Dry clothes will be taken to the finish for you. A touring division is also available for those wanting to take in the scenery on this beautiful ski. Proceeds benefit VTXC, a Stowe-area-based ski club that provides professional level coaching for athletes of all ages while accelerating the club's post-collegiate marathon team.
Jan. 11
Trapp Family Lodge
Ladies Nordic Ski Expo
The Catamount Trail Association presents a full day of Nordic (skate and classic), backcountry, and telemark instruction for women, by women, at one of the best venues in the Northeast. This is a unique opportunity for women to learn from some of the best female skiers in the country in a beautiful environment.
Jan. 12
Rikert Nordic Center
Frost Mountain Nordic Bill Koch Home Race
Frost Mountain Nordic Ski Club hosts its annual Bill Koch Youth Ski League Races at Rikert. Open to kids who want to see how much fun racing can be.
Jan. 18
Trapp Family Lodge
Tour de Trapp 30K/15K Skate Marathon
A great season opener for distance racing on a newly updated FIS racecourse. The two- or four-lap mass start skate race will be self-seeded and feature a 7.5K homologated race loop. Prizes and after party at the Trapp Brewery.
Jan. 18–19
Rikert Nordic Center
Eastern Colleges Ski Club Races
Division 3 college races sponsored by SKIGA
Jan. 19
Stowe Public Recreation Trail
Stowe Tour De Snow
Kids and families are invited to ski or snowshoe down the 5.3-mile Stowe public recreation path for a day of activities, including making s'mores, skiing a Nordic terrain park, shooting paintballs, pulling sleds, and stretching out with some yoga. Proceeds benefit the Skiing Kids in School Program. Event is put on by Friends of the Rec Path.
Feb. 1
Craftsbury Nordic Center
Craftsbury Marathon
The 2014 marathon will run in the traditional point-to-point format from Highland Lodge in Greensboro to Craftsbury Common via the Outdoor Center. The past several seasons have been marked by extensive work on the marathon trail: removing bumps, sharp corners, steep chutes, and poor drainage on the connector.
Feb. 1‒2
Trapp Family Lodge XC Center
NENSA Eastern Cup/UVM Carnival
The third weekend of NENSA Eastern Cup racing will also be another FIS race weekend. This Eastern Cup is a combined event with the UVM College Carnival and is hosted by Stowe Nordic Outing Club and UVM.
Feb. 2
Mad River Glen
Sugarbush Mad River Glen Randonee Race
One of the biggest and best Randonee races in North America—right in the Mad River Valley. This US Ski Mountaineer Association–sanctioned race starts at the base of Mad River Glen, climbs to the top, traverses the Long Trail to Mount Ellen, descends into Slide Brook, climbs into the Lincoln Peak area, and finishes at Valley House lodge. It's a challenge, a great time, and the scenery is spectacular.
Feb. 7–9
Craftsbury Nordic Center
USSA SuperTour
The Center will play host to a USSA SuperTour event in conjunction with the Dartmouth Winter Carnival. The SuperTour/Carnival weekend will offer three FIS scored races: a freestyle individual start on Friday, a classic individual start on Saturday, and a freestyle sprint on Sunday. The first two races will be EISA scored as part of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival weekend. These races will bring together the best US domestic racers, a number of Canadian skiers, as well as the top EISA collegiate competitors on Craftsbury's FIS homologated courses.
Feb. 9
Burke Mountain Resort
Rally on Burke Mountain
This US Ski Mountaineer Association event climbs up and around Q Burke, gaining approximately 4,300 vertical feet. Prizes awarded for speed, spirit, and participation.
Feb. 9
Rikert Nordic Center
J2/Eastern High School Qualifier
The best high school racers and junior skiers compete for a chance to represent Vermont at the Eastern Championships here in March.
Feb. 15
Rikert Nordic Center
Romance Half-Marathon Race and Tour
Bring your sweetie or just yourself and enjoy a 25K race and tour through the beautiful Green Mountains. Classic technique. Hot blueberry soup on the trail, awards, raffle prizes, and good food await at the end. Event benefits the VT Ski and Snowboard Museum.
Feb. 15
Bolton Valley Resort and West Monitor Barn
Bolton to the Barns
The fifth annual Bolton to the Barns Backcountry Ski Tour is a Nordic event for experienced backcountry ski enthusiasts. Skiers will choose between an easier and a more challenging route, start at the Bolton Valley Nordic Center, and finish at the Monitor Barns.
Feb. 20
Rikert Nordic Center
Vermont High School State Championships
The best high school Nordic skiers race at Rikert for all bragging rights of the season.
Feb. 21‒22
Rikert Nordic Center
Middlebury College Winter Carnival
The best Division I collegiate racers in the country will race at the Middlebury Carnival. Two-day event on the Tormondsen Family Race Trail. 2/21: Classic Ind. Start: W 5K, M 10K; 2/22 Skate Mass Start: W 15K, M 20K. Spectators/foot traffic free; skiers need trail pass.
Feb. 22
Kingdom Trails
Ride, Glide, and Rawhide
Join Kingdom Trails in a race that celebrates all winter disciplines in a very undisciplined way. Teams will race on skis, snowshoes, and fat bikes in a short-course manner that will be fun for racers and spectators alike. After party to follow hosted by the Wildflower Inn.
Feb. 23
Mount Mansfield Auto Toll Road
2014 Stowe Derby
The Stowe Derby started in 1945 as a contest between two skiers, Austrian Sepp Ruschp, who was hired to come to America and head the new ski school at Stowe, and Erling Strom, world-famous mountaineer from Norway. The challenge was the same as it is today: to race from the top of Mount Mansfield to the village of Stowe on one pair of skis. In 1945, Ruschp raced on backcountry skis and Strom on Nordic skis. Today, most everyone races on Nordic skis with spectacular falls by the rookies on the way down. The race attracts more than 900 competitors, from Canadian Cross-Country Ski Team members and NCAA champions to recreational skiers looking for a thrill. While the race can be very competitive at all levels, it is also a fun race, having been chosen as one of the top sporting events in the state by readers of Vermont Sports Magazine. 20K, 2,600 vertical feet.
Feb. 23
Camel's Hump Nordic Ski Area, Huntington
Camel's Hump Challenge
The Camel's Hump Challenge follows a rigorous cross-country ski traverse around the entire mountain, ranging in elevation from 2,500 to 3,500 feet. Participants in the CHC raise money for support and educational programs for the Vermont Alzheimer's Association.
March 1‒8
Trapp Family Lodge XC Center
Junior Nationals
This spring, The Trapp Family Lodge hosts the USSA Junior National Nordic Ski Championships. 450 Olympic hopeful athletes, ages 14 to 19, and 150 coaches from across the United States will spend a week in Stowe as they compete in a variety of race formats that alternate with training days. It truly will be a memorable experience for all as the athletes race and family and spectators cheer, and everyone enjoys the beautiful scenery and plentiful offerings of Vermont.
March 2
Rikert Nordic Center
Bread Loaf Citizens Race
The umpteenth running of the storied 5K Bread Loaf Citizens' Race. Vie for the traditional loaf of bread and other prizes. Costumes or spandex, barbecue and fun. Lollipop Race for youngsters.
March 7
Rikert Nordic Center
J2 Championships
The J2 Championship is one of the highlights of the season for junior athletes. Each New England states and New York can qualify their fastest 20 14- to 15-year-old boys and girls. Four races over three days.
March 15‒16
Rikert Nordic Center
Can-Am Grand Prix
Youth racing with an International flair. Canadian and American boys and girls compete for the coveted Maple Leaf Points Trophy.
March 16
Magic Mountain
Magic Mountain Rando Race
Magic's Rando race features both short (3,200 vertical feet) and full (4,550 vertical feet) options as racers skin, climb, and ski toward victory.
March 23
Bromley Rando Race
Using climbing skins with Alpine touring or telemark bindings or even splitboards, racers start at the base of the mountain, ascend it, then descend it (on marked in-bounds ski area trails), as fast as possible, over multiple laps, up to 5,000 feet cumulative vertical.
March 30
Rikert Nordic Center
Bob's Birthday Bash and Annual Rikert Random Relays
Come celebrate Robert Frost's birthday with Random Relays. A totally random day of great fun ending with Bob's Birthday cake.


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Frontiers in Run-Time Prediction for the Production-System Paradigm
Efficient indexing schemes have influenced the acceptance of production systems in the industrial world. However, in embedded-control systems, production systems have not been applied intensively because of their nondeterministic run-time behavior. Thus, nonpredictability of response times is a major obstacle to the widespread use of expert systems in the real-time domain. The RETE and TREAT algorithms and their offspring play a major role in the implementation of efficient pattern-matching systems. Therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate run-time predictability for these match algorithms. This article presents three different schemes for estimating the time needed for operations in the production-system execution model.
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BOSTON – Friday, March 7, 2014 – In a visit to the Callahan Tunnel today, MassDOT Secretary & CEO Richard A. Davey and Highway Administrator Frank DePaola announced the closure portion of the rehabilitation project is coming to an end, and barring any unforeseen delays, the Tunnel that carries traffic from Downtown to East Boston and Logan Airport will be back open to vehicles on Monday, March 10, 2014 by 5am.
"The Patrick Administration has made a commitment to invest in the infrastructure we have and to be innovative in how we deliver critical repairs to the roads, bridges and tunnels that support the regional economy," said Secretary Davey. "To that end, MassDOT is pleased to share that this closure is trending to end several days ahead of schedule."
"Along with receiving quality work to meet our specifications, reducing the impact this work had on the public has been our highest priority. There were doubts on how the region would respond to the detours and I am thankful to the public and our project team for showing us that the complete closure was the right choice," said Administrator DePaola.
Work will continue 24/7 through the weekend as contractor McCourt paves the tunnel, installs lane marking and works in coordination with MassDOT to remove the barriers and detours that have been in place since the closure began on December 27.
The $19.3 million contract for McCourt Construction included additional incentive payments of $71,500 each day the tunnel opens prior to the advertised opening date of March 12; McCourt is on track to be eligible for an incentive payment with a Monday opening. The complete budget for the project, funded through toll revenues, is $25 million revised from the earlier $35 million project estimate.
Efforts to return traffic to pre-closure conditions will take place over the course of next week; these efforts that will be noticed by the public are detailed below. Most notably, the effort requires the closure of Exit 24/Gov't Center on I-93 Southbound on Sunday night into Monday morning and the complete closure of I-93 Southbound through Boston overnight Tuesday into Wednesday.
The rehabilitation project allows for single-lane restrictions and complete overnight closures in the months ahead. The detour during those overnight closures will be posted as needed and direct motorists along surface streets and into the Ted Williams Tunnel.
In 2009, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) was created to unify the state's various transportation agencies. MassDOT now includes the Highway Division, the MBTA and Rail Transit Division, the Aeronautics Division, and the Registry of Motor Vehicles. MassDOT is committed to providing a safe and reliable transportation system to all those who travel in the Commonwealth and works to deliver excellent customer service. MassDOT has been nationally recognized for its innovative approach to transportation, including the Accelerated Bridge Program, the "Where's My Bus and Train?" apps and "Fast 14" work. For more information, visit MassDOT at our website: www.mass.gov/massdot blog: http://blog.mass.gov/transportation/, or follow MassDOT on twitter at https://twitter.com/MassDOT and Facebook at www.facebook.com/massdotinfo.


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Words That Inspire: 3/4-Baked
"I believe in the 3/4-baked philosophy. People chase perfection—trying to 'fully bake' their ideas before they share them with the world. Too many people end up never sharing their ideas, songs, dreams, novels, and inventions.
The 3/4-baked philosophy is about finding that right time to share your work—letting the community fully bake it. The more you do this, the more you put yourself out there, the more success you have."
Jason F. McLennan
How many ideas or dreams get left on the shelf because you don't think they're good enough or because you're afraid of how they'll be received? Sustainable architecture guru Jason McLennan suggests that we stop "chasing perfection." Getting off the mark is at the heart of Jason McLennan's 3/4-baked philosophy. Dare to share.
Check out the classroom activity below to find out what level your students might take their ideas.
Warm-up Activity
Before you and your students explore Jason McLennan's 3/4-baked philosophy, take a look at how he came up with the term. Fully-baked seems easily understood, but what about half-baked? See how many definitions you can come up with.
3/4-Baked Game
Level One: Write it down
Ask each student to write down their 3/4 –baked ideas. They may be dreams, inventions, ambitions, service projects, and more. Whatever the idea, it should be more than the idea itself, but doesn't have to be fully fleshed out. They may keep these ideas to themselves in a journal, or, if your group of students feel comfortable, post them where everyone can see—and see where these ideas end up!
Level Two: Find someone to share your idea
Have your students think of someone they trust, someone with whom they can share this 3/4- baked idea. It may be someone who has knowledge or expertise in this area, or a person whom they feel will give constructive feedback and support.
Level Three: Get moving!
How has the feedback helped your students changed or grown their ideas? What do they now need to do to fully bake them? It's time to spring into action.
Level Four: Celebrate
Congratulations! Your students have taken their 3/4- baked ideas and tested them. Are they now fully baked?
Level Five: Continue the journey of the 3/4-baked philosophy
Now that your students have taken the risk to share their 3/4-baked ideas, encourage them to do it again!
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The first reaction many library administrators have when learning that significant budget decreases are likely to occur is panic: "We can't do this!" The second one is worry: "I don't know how to do this."
Whether you feel your cuts are fair or unfair, it's time to turn that worry into action. Take a few deep breaths. There are some constructive things you can do at this early stage.
2.1 Understand Your Timeline
2.2 Take Some Immediate Action
2.3 Seek Advice
2.4 Communicate Change
2.5 Advocate for a Community Survey
Understand Your Timeline
Timelines vary widely. What is yours? It's the number of weeks or months you have between the day you learn that cuts are likely and the day when decisions will be made about the depth of those cuts. Six weeks? Three months? In many instances, the timeline may be fairly long, six to nine months or more. A long timeline has both advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side, you have a significant period of time to plan, advocate and communicate. On the minus side, your staff will feel anxious for all of these months, and it will be up to you to be both honest and positive in your messages to them.
If you take action to reduce the impact that cuts will have on your library's services, your timeline will serve as the framework to help you organize those efforts. Every library has a unique set of circumstances and a timeline that might be longer or shorter than another's. The first set of activities, listed below, should take anywhere from two to four weeks, depending on the length of time you have and the resources available to you.
Take Some Immediate Action
If you learn that your household budget is going to be stressed due to a job change that will reduce your personal income, what's the first thing you do? You look at your expenditures and determine which ones are fixed and which ones are discretionary. Where can you cut back? Do you eat out three times a week? Once a week may be all that's in your new budget. Love those premium cable channels? You can learn to love the basic package too.
You get the idea. Your library's budget can be approached the same way. Some costs are out of your control: Your library has to be staffed, lit, air conditioned and heated all the hours it's open. Your computers, printers and copiers must function all the time. But some other costs are well under your control. For example:
- Materials are a big part of every library's budget, and you can start there.
- What purchases can cease for the time being?
- Which can be cut back? New DVDs? Journal subscriptions?
- What about programming? That's painful to cut, but if it adds to your costs in terms of staffing or supplies, it's expendable.
- How about printed materials? They can add up too.
- The computers you'd planned to replace this year? That purchase may have to be deferred.
In other words, the place to start is with what you spend. Pare back now, and the cuts you dread will be a little less painful when they are a reality.
Seek Advice
Because the problem of decreased budgets is so widespread among libraries of all sizes everywhere, chances are you have professional colleagues who have been – or may currently be – in your shoes. Talk to them! There is much to be learned from the experience of others.
Communicate Change
Open, positive communication is important during the entire process of budget-cut planning and implementation. At every stage of the change process you will be an important source of information to a broad audience. Your staff, the general public and your decision makers will be looking to you for accurate information.
Communicate with Your Staff
You can be absolutely certain that your staff will be anxious and perhaps discontent from the moment they realize that cuts are coming. Who can blame them? For your staff, it's about more than library services. Their jobs are on the line. Uncertainty always fuels the rumor mill. Gossip and rumors will fly, and it will be your job to keep them at a minimal level by communicating openly and regularly with your staff.
But how much communication and what kind? Believe it or not, it's possible to communicate too much, and too much communication can cause people to worry more. You may be approached by staff members who want to know every detail and nuance of your budget challenges. Assure them that you will cut everything possible before turning to staff reductions, but resist the urge to share all of the "what if" and "it's possible" scenarios. That will stress people despite your good intentions. One simple rule: Make it a point never to share information that isn't firm.
Communicate in a variety of ways:
- Send e-mail memos to your staff throughout the budget planning process. E-mailing gives you the power to craft your communications carefully, and it gives staff opportunities to respond to issues that energize or concern them. It invites dialogue.
- Use your intranet to post minutes of administrative meetings in which the budget concerns were discussed. This sharing of information gives those meetings a transparency that your staff will appreciate and will help them feel "in the loop."
- Use your intranet, too, to invite staff members to submit ideas (perhaps anonymously) for budget reductions. Don't underestimate the insight that your staff may have. You can't think of everything.
- Hold "coffee and conversation" meetings with staff members. It will be a great trust builder and will allow you to keep your finger on the pulse of your staff's anxieties. If you're a director of a multi-branch system and there are management staff between you and many of your frontline employees, consider making these coffee and conversations management-free so that your more cautious staff members feel they have direct access to you without worrying about what their supervisor might think of their ideas or concerns.
- Always let your staff know that you are listening and that their opinions matter. Empowerment is important, because the situations people fear most are the ones in which they feel powerless. All of these ideas encourage open exchange, build trust and empower your staff.
Communicate with Your Board, Trustees and Friends
Let this group of insiders know about your budget challenges as soon as you've informed your staff. Tell them you will be looking at all parts of the budget for areas that can be reduced and that you may be calling upon them for their help and advice.
Communicate with the Community
- Be sure you let people know that the library will be experiencing cutbacks, but that its staff understands the community's challenges and is part of a team that is working to ensure that community needs are met.
- Tell them that careful planning is underway.
- Let your community know that library services will be maintained at the highest possible level, even when hours and staff are reduced.
- Make sure that changes in services are communicated through every channel open to you. Use:
- Your library's website
- Your city/county/township's website
- Signs, flyers and bookmarks inside and outside the library
- Conversations between your frontline staff and people in the community
- Your community newspaper and its website
- Local radio and TV
- Keep your messages positive and remind staff to do the same. Remember that it's not your patrons' fault that your budget is being reduced. Declare your library a NO WHINING zone.
Advocate for a Community Survey
Libraries that have had the good fortune to be included in surveys in which individual community members are asked to value or rank their community's services are in wonderful place indeed. Why? Whenever community service rankings occur, the library always comes out near the top because people consider their library to be an essential service. Public safety (police and fire) may rank higher, but you can be sure that your library will finish very strong. For this reason, one excellent advocacy strategy is to convince your governing body to survey its citizens about what services they value most in these tough economic times. Surveys can be done easily on the city/county/township's website and inserted in city-wide mailings such as water bills.
When the results come in and your library finishes in the top rankings, you will have gained valuable justification for keeping your budget strong. You won't have to "plead your case" because the people in your community will have spoken. They will make that case for you. Your job will be to be sure that decision makers hear and understand individuals' strong feelings of library affection and support.
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ALA Office for Library Advocacy - "Library Advocate's Handbook"
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A day after news broke in Worcester that a Chicago-based casino developer plans a slots operation in the city, residents in the Milford-Holliston-Medway area Thursday turned up the heat in opposition to a gambling proposal in Milford.
A well-attended meeting was held to organize against the Crossroads project, a large, resort-style casino proposed for Milford near Interstates 90 and 495 by developer David Nunes, in partnership with the owners of Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. The meeting, in Adams Middle School Auditorium, featured a presentation by Stephanie Crimmins, who spearheaded the effort last year against a proposed casino resort in Foxboro.
The effort could be a sign of things to come in Worcester if the slots proposal there gets off the ground.
Ms. Crimmins outlined the process that the group she was a part of, No Foxboro Casino, experienced from the day residents found out about the proposal — a joint effort of casino magnate Steve Wynn and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft — to the day when Mr. Wynn and Mr. Kraft pulled out of Foxboro.
Ms. Crimmins opened her presentation lightly enough, with slides showing pictures of the New England Patriots' Tom Brady and Robert Kraft, and illustrating the power and influence Mr. Kraft wielded in town. But the casino industry is a serious, multi-billion dollar business, Ms. Crimmins said.
A financial analyst by trade, Ms. Crimmins detailed how casinos often operate with billions of dollars of debt, and talked about how casino executives are recruited from top industries and top universities across the country.
Casinos are designed as self-contained entities designed to encourage patrons not to leave, she said. Casino projects are often pitched to communities as boons to the local economy, but the development has the opposite effect, she said. The bulk of the jobs are low-level, high turnover positions, she said. Around 84 percent of casino workers in Connecticut make $22,000 annually, she said.
She said that in the Wynn proposal in Foxboro, the role of the casino in the resort operation was downplayed, but Ms. Crimmins noted that 75 percent of revenue generated by the Wynn proposal would have come directly from casino operations.
The Foxboro group did extensive research in Ledyard, Conn., where Foxwoods is located. Ms. Crimmins went through a list of problems officials and residents attributed to the casino, from trash disposal problems to traffic to stress on local school systems caused by an influx of workers to the sprouting up of addiction treatment centers.
"You're bound to know a family whose life will be ruined," Ms. Crimmins said.
The mitigation packages negotiated between the developers and communities are not as rock-solid as one might think, Ms. Crimmins told the audience. She said bankruptcy or a sale could wipe away any mitigation.
Ms. Crimmins said the group in Foxboro got organized early, and spread the word quickly.
People were encouraged to take a stand, and eventually the focus turned to the Board of Selectmen in Foxboro, she said.
The board initially voted not to negotiate with the Wynn/Kraft team, but that vote could have been revisited at any time. Ms. Crimmins said that effectively turned the May election into a casino referendum.
An anti-casino selectman was re-elected, and a casino opponent was elected. A selectman who had not given a clear indication of his stand on the casino was defeated. The election bolstered the anti-casino stance of the Board of Selectmen, and the Kraft/Wynn proposal was almost immediately pulled.
In Worcester, a subsidiary of Rush Street Gaming, Massachusetts Gaming & Entertainment LLC, has submitted a $400,000 license application fee to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, but has not yet officially notified the commission of the site it has chosen for the facility.
However, Worcester City Manager Michael V. O'Brien earlier this week told the City Council that the company will pursue a site in Worcester and it was learned that the site under consideration is the former Wyman Gordon plant site in the Green Island section of the city.
Ken Rockett, a spokesman for Casino Free Milford, said the group formed about a year ago, but re-energized earlier this year. It started out with around 5 volunteers, but that number has ballooned to around 90. He said the group plans on presenting its opposition to the Milford casino project at Monday's Milford selectmen's meeting.


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For more than 50 years, the Conservancy has been working throughout California to help protect nature and the precious natural resources that are essential to human life. Together with partners, local landowners and the support of members like you, we have helped to protect nearly 1.5 million acres in California.
Use the links below to learn more about a few of the places you are helping us protect across the Golden State.
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Northern California:
Angelo Coast Range Reserve
Cosumnes River Project
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Gray Davis / Dye Creek Preserve
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Lassen Foothills Project
Lower Klamath Basin Project / Mt. Shasta
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Rex submits resignation
Wapakoneta City Schools Board of Education members this week approved several personnel matters including, the resignations of Wapakoneta High School Principal Aaron Rex and Wapakoneta High School Secretary Jennifer Adkins.
Rex's resignation is effective Feb. 1, while Adkins' was effective Jan. 22.
Rex, who has been with the district 16 years, seven of which he spent as high school principal, plans to start in his new position as superintendent of Archbold Area Schools on Feb. 4.
"Obviously, we are going to miss Mr. Rex," Horner said. "He was a great person for our high school and will be a great superintendent. I am proud of this guy."
Board members also extended their wishes of congratulations and good luck.
"It's a great opportunity," Rex said thanking the board for taking a chance on him as a principal after just a year serving as assistant principal at Wapakoneta High School.
He said experiences he had here were the reason he could move on to the superintendent's position.
Board members approved updates to several board policies as they relate to the use of personal communication devices, whistleblower protection, non-discrimination and equal employment opportunity, employment of administrators, non-discrimination and access to quality employment opportunity, field and other district-sponsored trips, student assessment and academic intervention services, third-grade reading guarantee, and non-renewal of teacher contracts. A policy on evaluation of teachers on limited contracts was deleted.
Horner said most of the changes were relatively small, with the exception of the third-grade reading guarantee, which district administrators continue to work on moving forward with.
"It's something we need to stay on top of," Horner said of Ohio's new stipulation that beginning with students entering third-grade in 2013-14, they cannot be promoted to fourth-grade if they score below a certain level on the state reading test.
The level the students must achieve is slightly below the actual passing score on the state reading test. There are some exceptions.
In other personnel matters, board members approved:
• Supplemental contracts for the 2013-14 school year for Doug Frye as varsity football coach at approximately $6,545; Mark Cook as varsity cross country coach at approximately $4,900; Ross Kantner as varsity girls soccer coach at approximately $4,900; Mike Klock as varsity girls tennis coach at approximately $3,927; Ken Wayman as varsity boys golf coach at approximately $3,927; Dawn West as varsity girls golf coach at approximately $3,927; and Keith Rambin as varsity boys soccer coach at approximately $3,927.
• Disability retirement of Diana Krites, a bus driver and cafeteria worker at Wapakoneta Elementary School, effective Feb. 1, 2013. Her last day of work was Jan. 16.
• Resignation of Adam Friemering from the supplemental position of assistant softball coach.
• Employment of substitutes, including two cafeteria workers, a para-educator and secretary, for the 2012-13 school year.
In other matters, board members
• Accepted approximately $9,544 from the Wapakoneta Elementary School PTO for document cameras and supplies to be used for projecting papers and items onto whiteboards in classrooms. Board member Pat Gibson thanked all the district's PTOs for the contributions they make, which takes stress off the general fund.
Following regular session, the board met in executive session to discuss the appointment or employment of an employee or official with no action taken.


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NEW YORK — [Breaking news update, 6:01 p.m. PT]
Florida State University quarterback Jameis Winston was awarded the Heisman Trophy on Saturday, an honor that comes amid lingering questions about a rape allegation that has cast a pall over his claim to the coveted bronze statue.
Winston, who was considered a frontrunner by many college analysts, led the top-ranked Seminoles to an undefeated regular season and a chance to play for a national championship in January.
But even as Winston became only the second redshirt freshman to win the Heisman, questions swirled about a rape allegation made against him more than a year ago but made public only last month.
Prosecutors declined this month to file a charge against Winston, but at a news conference by his accuser's lawyer the day before the Heisman presentation kept feeding the story.
Asked about the case on Friday, Winston said, "It was stressful, but you've got to look forward."
[Original story published at 12:39 p.m. PT]
Six finalists await Heisman moment
Six distinct college football storylines converge in New York City on Saturday night for the awarding of the Heisman Trophy.
What the six finalists share is their outstanding performance on the field. But their seasons on and off the field have taken different, and sometimes controversial, paths.
Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, the frontrunner according to many college football analysts, can't shake questions about a rape allegation made against him a year ago. He was ultimately not charged, but a news conference by his accuser's lawyer the day before the Heisman presentation kept feeding the story.
Asked about the case on Friday, Winston said, "It was stressful, but you've got to look forward."
Winston led the top-ranked Seminoles to an undefeated regular season and a chance to play for a national championship in January. He recorded 3,820 passing yards and 38 passing touchdowns this year.
The Florida State quarterback would become only the second redshirt freshman to win the Heisman.
The first freshman winner came last year, when Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel took the honor. The dual-threat quarterback is a finalist again this year, vying to become only the second player in history to win the Heisman twice.
Controversy followed Manziel during the off-season amid allegations of profiting from autographs. Manziel quieted his critics with another impressive season, passing for 3,732 yards and 33 touchdowns, besting his numbers from 2012. During some of the Aggies' biggest games at the end of the season, however, Manziel and his team fell short.
Auburn, meanwhile, enjoyed a hugely successful season that catapulted it to the championship game, and running back Tre Mason to the circle of Heisman finalists.
Mason rushed for 1,621 yards and 22 rushing touchdowns this season. This month alone, Mason set two Southeastern Conference Championship game records with 304 rushing yards and 46 carries.
Auburn played in the conference championship because of its memorable victory over rival Alabama. Alabama had won the two previous national championships and lost only two games in the last two seasons.
The quarterback and leader of this Alabama team is AJ McCarron, another Heisman finalist. He passed for 2,676 yards this season while being intercepted only five times. He is the winningest quarterback in Alabama history.
Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch hails from a less storied program, but he has put up some of the most impressive numbers.
Lynch finished seventh in Heisman voting last year, and had another breakout year in 2013. He was as effective with his feet as with his hands, throwing for 2,676 yards for 23 touchdowns and rushing for 1,881 yards for 22 touchdowns.
Northern Illinois competes in the mid-major Mid-American conference, and Lynch has raised his school's profile.
The final Heisman finalist, Andre Williams of Boston College, already has some awards to put on his mantle. Most recently, he won the Doak Walker Award, given each year to college football's best running back.
In 2013, Williams became the first Eagle to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He also set the school's record for most rushing yards in a game this year, with 339 yards.
In all, he rushed for 2,102 yards and scored 17 touchdowns, making him the nation's leading rusher. He is considered the biggest reason behind the Eagles' berth to a bowl game for the first time in three years.
The Heisman Trophy is voted on by more than 900 sports journalists and every living former Heisman winner.
CNN's Mariano Castillo contributed to this report


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KQED 9: Thursday, February 7, 2013
Channels 9.1 • 54.2, 25.1 | XFINITY 9 and HD 709
Schedule is subject to change. Please visit kqed.org/tv/schedules/daily for the most up-to-date info.
12:00 amCharlie Rose [#19033H] (original broadcast date: 02/06/13)
an hour with Justice Sonia Sotomayor on her life, career and new memoir, called "My Beloved World" duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE
1:00 amNightly Business Report [#32046Z] Through rain and snow...but just not on Saturdays. NBR's Darren Gersh reports on the U.S. Postal Service's decision to drop Saturday deliveries in a move to save billions. Fresh pain at the gas pump. NBR's Erika Miller reports on why American drivers are seeing a steep jump in gas prices. And, The Federal Reserve says it has been hit by cyber hackers. NBR's Tom Hudson speaks with Trusteer's Senior Security Strategist George Tubin. duration 26:46 STEREO TVRE
1:30 amQUEST [#409H] Asthma: What Brought on the Epidemic? / Ants: The Invisible Majority Visit Bay Area researchers who are working to understand why asthma rates have increased, and learn how ants have managed to thrive in almost every habitat on Earth. duration 26:21 STEREO TVG
2:00 amNature [#3007H] Attenborough's Life Stories: Our Fragile Planet This mini-series focuses on three fields that David Attenborough feels have been transformed most profoundly: filmmaking, science and the environment. Richly illustrated with the sequences he has spent 60 years capturing (re-mastered for the first time in HD), with new interviews in which he revisits the content, stories and locations that were featured in his landmark series and packed with the personal anecdotes of the BBC's most accomplished raconteur, this series will be a synopsis of a unique half-century. duration 56:46 SRND51 TVPG (Secondary audio: DVI)
3:00 amNova [#4005H] Building Pharaoh's Chariot Around 3,600 years ago, reliefs in Egyptian tombs and temples depicted pharaohs and warriors proudly riding into battle on horse-drawn chariots. Some historians claim that the chariot launched a technological and strategic revolution, and was the secret weapon behind Egypt's greatest era of conquest known as the New Kingdom. But was the Egyptian chariot really a revolutionary design? How decisive a role did it play in the bloody battles of the ancient world? In this film, a team of archaeologists, engineers, woodworkers and horse trainers join forces to build and test two highly accurate replicas of Egyptian royal chariots. They discover astonishingly advanced features, including spoked wheels, springs, shock absorbers, anti-roll bars and even a convex shaped rear mirror, leading one of them to compare the level of design to the engineering standards of 1930's-era Buicks! By driving our pair of replicas to their limits in the desert outside Cairo, NOVA's experts test the claim that the chariot marks a crucial turning point in ancient military history. duration 56:46 STEREO TVPG
4:00 amLife On Fire [#106] Pioneers of the Deep In the vast emptiness of the Pacific Ocean, tectonic movements construct or swallow islands. In the Tongan archipelago, two little-known animals have learned to cope with these ephemeral lands risen from the ocean depths: the sooty tern, a seabird that never dares wet its wings for fear of drowning, and the Alvin shrimp, a blind crustacean that manages to find its way around the abyss. When an underwater volcano becomes an island, the fates of these two extraordinary paradoxes are linked. duration 56:46 STEREO TVG (Secondary audio: none)
5:00 amSoul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey A timely and unforgettable story about one person's commitment to integrity and human rights and his profound influence on the American judicial system. Award-winning director Abby Ginzberg's riveting and thought-provoking film transports viewers through the inspiring life and work of one of the first African-American federal judges in the US and chronicles the impact of his decisions on the lives of millions. duration 56:56 STEREO TVPG
6:00 amRaggs [#211] Conserving & Exploring Water Uh Oh, Razzles left the hose running by mistake and the water overflowed on the ground. With one bucket of water left - they use B. Max's invention to measure how much they can each use to brush their teeth, wash their paws and wash their dishes. Without any more water, can Dumpster help them figure out how to get more? When the pups go on a pretend journey to the bottom of the ocean, they discover that there are lots of different animals that live under water. Raggs wants to continue his exploration, so the rest of the pups pretend to be all sorts of sea creatures. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
6:30 amCat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! [#134] Amazing Eyes/Water Walkers Amazing Eyes - Sally and Nick are trying to guess which game Harvey the guinea pig might like to play with them. The Cat takes them to meet his friend Katie the Cavy, a wild guinea pig. But when they try to ask her, she playfully runs off! With the help of three different animals with very different ways of seeing, they finally find Katie and discover a guinea pig's favourite game - hide and seek! Water Walkers - Nick and Sally are waiting for Mom to come back so they can play in the pool. Cat suggests that playing on water is even more fun! But how? A trip to Splishy Splashy Pond to meet Walker the water strider will show them. Walker shows how he's able to stay on top of the water with the help of air bubbles as he journeys to the other side of the pond. Back at home, Sally and Nick are ready travel to the other side of the pool! duration 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
7:00 amDaniel Tiger's Neighborhood [#114H] Thank You, Grandpere Tiger!/Neighborhood Thank You Day * Thank You, Grandpere Tiger! - Grandpere Tiger comes to visit, but is only in town for a short while. Daniel is sad that Grandpere can't come to the special Thank You Day celebration later that day. Daniel learns to be thankful for the time they DO have together, and is then surprised when Grandpere appears at the celebration after all!
* Neighborhood Thank You Day - The neighborhood celebrates Thank You Day by putting notes in the Thank You Tree. Daniel has trouble deciding what to put in his note. Then, when a gust of wind blows the notes off of the tree, Mr. McFeely saves the day by catching and delivering everybody's thank you notes! duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
7:30 amCaillou [#440] Outdoor Adventures When Caillou, Grandpa and Daddy go on a canoe trip, Caillou is amazed to see a dragonfly, a blue heron, and a beaver working on his beaver lodge. While Caillou and his family are on a picnic at the park, his beach ball accidentally rolls into a pond. Caillou sees a family of ducks swimming in the pond and wants to take a closer look. Dad shows Caillou a neat trick to call the ducks. When a white rabbit eats a bunch of carrots set aside for a picnic lunch, Caillou and Rosie go looking for him. They soon discover that it isn't a wild rabbit, his name is Snowball and he belongs to Mr. Hinkle's sister. On another day, Caillou and his family are leaving for a picnic in the country but the ride feels very long for Caillou. When they stop at a gas station, Caillou spots some cows in a field next to a picnic area. The family decides to have the picnic there, where they have a close encounter with some cows. Caillou learns about patience when he goes fishing with Daddy and Grandpa at the pier. But learning about patience is hard, can Caillou wait long enough to catch his own fish? duration 28:55 STEREO TVY
8:00 amCurious George [#509H] Follow That Boat/Windmill Monkey * Follow That Boat - Steve needs an A to pass his history class and his model papyrus boat is sure to make the grade. George helps him test the boat in Endless Park's pond, but a sudden rainstorm sweeps it down the sewer grate! While searching for the boat, Steve and George learn that debris from the street ends up in the ocean. Will they ever find Steve's little boat in the big ocean or will he be taking history again next year? Educational Objective: To recognize that waste needs to be disposed of properly to prevent unnecessary harm to the environment. To learn about a manmade system designed to reduce man's impact on the environment by working to maintain a clean and healthy environment.
* Windmill Monkey - George proudly finishes planting his rooftop garden when he turns around to find that Compass and his friends have eaten all the seeds. The scarecrow overlooking the garden didn't scare them at all! While buying more seeds, George spots a windmill and learns how the wind can power just about anything. The inspired monkey sets out to create the world's first wind powered scarecrow in hopes that will keep his seeds safe. But some things are more easily planned than done! Educational Objective: To recognize wind as an alternative and renewable source of energy capable of doing work. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY
8:30 amCat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! [#135] Super Cleaner Uppers/Itty Bitty Water Super Cleaner Upper: Nick and Sally are cleaning up the backyard when they come across a yucky apple core. Who's going to pick it up? The Cat in the Hat takes them to meet the best cleaner-upper there is, Sandy the Sand Hopper! Sandy teaches them the difference between natural "garbage" and man-made trash, and how some animals use the natural garbage as food. Back at home, they put the trash in a garbage bag, and the apple core in the garden for Wriggles the worm to enjoy! Itty Bitty Water - Nick and Sally are about to dump out the water in their kiddie pool when The Cat stops them - water is too precious to waste even a drop! Off they go to the Drippety Dry Desert to meet three creatures who are experts at conserving water. Back at home, they think of other ways to use the water in the pool instead of just dumping it out - like giving Cat a bath! duration 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
9:00 amSuper Why! [#208H] Baby Dino's Big Discovery ROAR! Pig invited his friends over to play dinosaurs, but Whyatt can't figure out which toy dinosaur he has. So he super readers soar into Baby Dino's Big Discovery where they lend a hand to a baby dinosaur searching for his mommy. They'll need to look closely to figure out what kind of dinosaur Baby Dino is...and be careful to avoid being eaten while they do! Educational Objectives: To learn about dinosaurs, follow the alphabet, rhyme with ANT words, find out what the words "herbivore" and "carnivore" mean, and use the power to read to change the story. duration 28:46 SRND51 TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
9:30 amDinosaur Train [#202H] Dinosaur Big City, Pt. 3/Dinosaur Big City, Pt. 4 The dinosaurs travel to the "big city" of Laramidia for the Theropod Convention! duration 28:46 SRND51 TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
10:00 amClifford The Big Red Dog [#206] Clifford Grows Up/Jetta's Sweater CLIFFORD GROWS UP - Clifford's Big Idea: Help Others The Howards do their best to make Clifford comfortable after he's grown too big for their city apartment. So they finally move to Birdwell Island to make Clifford happy. JETTA'S SWEATER - Clifford's Big Idea: Be Honest Jetta inadvertently gives Emily Elizabeth a sweater that was a gift from her grandma. When she realizes her mistake, she resorts to all kinds of tricks to get it back. duration 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
10:30 amClifford's Puppy Days [#114] The Best Nest/Practice Makes Perfect * The Best Nest - When Norville's nest disappears, his friends decide to build him a new one, but their bickering and fooling around nearly ruins the plan.
* Practice Makes Perfect - Emily Elizabeth gets discouraged during her art lessons with Mr. Solomon when she thinks Nina's pictures are better than hers. Mr. Solomon finds a unique way to show Emily Elizabeth that nobody starts out as a great artist. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
11:00 amSesame Street [#4316H] Finishing The Splat Oscar has a plan to paint a painting that is so grouchy and horrible it will make everyone on Sesame Street mad. He makes several messy brushstrokes on the canvas, but Alan finds it to be very expressive. How can Oscar make the painting messier? He observes Maria squeezing a squeeze bottle too hard and mustard splattering onto her sandwich, making a mess. This gives Oscar the idea to use squeeze bottles for his painting. He squirts a few splats of paint onto the canvas. Leela admires the painting and says it reminds her of fireworks. Oscar is now frustrated because his painting is not making anyone angry. He realizes that the paint colors are too nice. With Abby's help, Oscar notices a spot on the painting where the blue and yellow paint mixed together, creating a grouchy green color. Oscar squirts blue, yellow, and a little bit of red paint onto his palette and mixes them together. The paint turns into a dirty brownish green grouchy color. He makes a big batch of it and decides that rather than making little splatters with the squeeze bottles, he is going to use a different paint tool that has enough force to make a huge splat. He brings in his pet elephant, Fluffy. Fluffy blows on the pile of paint and creates a gigantic splat on the canvas. Everyone comes by and thinks the painting looks amazing. Oscar is now angrier than he's ever been. He didn't make anyone angry with his painting. Abby points out that he did make one person angry - himself! Oscar feels so great about being this angry that he decides to make another painting. duration 58:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
12:00 pmCharlie Rose [#19033H] (original broadcast date: 02/06/13)
an hour with Justice Sonia Sotomayor on her life, career and new memoir, called "My Beloved World" duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE
1:00 pmCheck, Please! Bay Area [#408H] Hayes Street Grill, Mama's On Washington Square, First, we take a stop at Hayes Street Grill, a local institution that stands on its reputation for the best and freshest fish around. Then, we cozy up to a little family-run spot called Mama's on Washington Square where they serve up a menu with fresh waffles and pancakes for breakfast, brunch and lunch. Sahn Maru Korean BBQ offers more than just barbecue. Its traditional Korean fare comes with warm, family-friendly service and plenty of tasty banchan (small side dishes). duration 26:22 STEREO TVG
1:30 pmAmerica's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated [#1202H] Fall Classics Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate Pot-Roasted Pork Loin. Chris then discusses the differences between baking soda and baking powder with science expert Guy Crosby. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of pork. And finally, test cook Yvonne Ruperti reveals the secrets of Classic Gingerbread. duration 26:46 STEREO TVG
2:00 pmJulia Child: Cooking with Master Chefs [#105] Charles Palmer Chef Charles Palmer grew up in upstate New York and now owns Aureole restaurant in New York City, among others. From his home kitchen, he shares his expertise with wild game and prepares Pepper Seared Venison Steaks with Pinot Noir and Sun- Dried Cherries, Herb Potato Maximes, and a Warm Chocolate Tarragon Cake. duration 26:07 STEREO TVG
2:30 pmBBC World News America [#17038H] duration 27:18 STEREO TVRE
3:00 pmPBS NewsHour [#10559H] John Brennan Confirmation Hearing * Los Angeles Manhunt * Iranian Nuclear Program * American Graduate Series * Los Angeles Catholic Church * Rosa Parks duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE
3:59 pmBBC World News America [#17038H] duration 27:18 STEREO TVRE
4:28 pmDaniel Tiger's Neighborhood [#115H] The Class Votes/The Neighborhood Votes * The Class Votes - At school, Daniel and his classmates get to choose their new class pet! Teacher Harriet explains that they can either get a bunny or a turtle. The kids learn what it means to 'vote' and that sometimes it doesn't always turn out your way. Luckily, all of the kids find something to love about their new pet, 'Snowball'
* The Neighborhood Votes - The Tiger family is going to Clock Factory Park today to hear a big announcement from King Friday. Daniel has to make several choices throughout the day, culminating in one BIG group decision: King Friday announces that the kids can choose one new piece of playground equipment and everyone gets to speak up for what they want by voting! duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
4:58 pmCat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! [#133H] A Sweet Deal/King of Swing * A Sweet Deal - Sally and Nick are having a hard time getting customers to come to their "cafe". What can they do? The Cat takes them to meet Eddy the honeyguide bird. Eddy shows them how he guides humans to bees' nests by making noise and putting on a show. Back at home, Sally and Nick follow Eddy's example and proudly serve their first customer!
* King of Swing - Swinging from a rope isn't so easy for Sally and Nick.Good thing the Cat knows the king of swing, Charlie the chimpanzee! In the Leafylafoo Rainforest, Charlie teaches them how to use their hands and feet to swing as they help him search for bananas, his favourite food! Back at home, Sally and Nick mimic Charlie and swing across the backyard to where Cat has a surprise snack waiting for them - bananas! duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
5:28 pmWild Kratts [#216H] Blowfish Blowout When the miniaturized Kratt Brothers get swept up and lost in a current of plankton, they become part of a crowd of fish larva all headed to the most populated and diverse habitat on Earth - the coral reef. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY
6:00 pmPBS NewsHour [#10559H] John Brennan Confirmation Hearing * Los Angeles Manhunt * Iranian Nuclear Program * American Graduate Series * Los Angeles Catholic Church * Rosa Parks duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE
7:00 pmNightly Business Report [#32047Z] Macy's, Gap and Target check in with strong January sales. But with smaller paychecks and higher gas prices, NBR's Erika Miller takes a look at whether Americans can keep shopping. Apple says it will weigh calls for it to return more cash to shareholders. NBR's Susie Gharib breaks down what it could mean for investors with Topeka Capital Markets' Technology Analyst Brian White. And, Activision Blizzard, the big video game maker, is roaring back to life with a new game and a new strategy. NBR's Ruben Ramirez speaks with the CEO of Activision Publishing. duration 26:46 STEREO TVRE
7:30 pmCheck, Please! Bay Area [#706H] Phnom Penh House, Pho VI Hoa and Grand Cafe Phnom Penh House (Oakland), Pho Vi Hoa (Los Altos) and Grand Cafe (San Francisco) are the eateries selected by local diners. Will the three guests agree on their Bay Area favorites? duration 26:46 STEREO TVG
8:00 pmNazi Hunters [#107Z] The Angel of Death Joseph Mengele experimented on adults and children in the Auschwitz death camps. He was a prime target and was, for many years, the world's most wanted criminal. The Hunters were Simon Wiesenthal, the U.N. War Crimes Commission and even Mossad. But none of them succeeded. The method Wiesenthal used to track Mengele was the following up of disparate clues, no matter how obscure. He would scour newspapers from all over the world, looking for unusual names, or sightings of possible Germans in unlikely places, such as small towns in South America. He suspected he was being sheltered by a well funded Nazi organization - and he was right. Throughout years of chasing, Mengele always got away. He drowned in Latin America in 1979. duration 49:45 STEREO TVPG
8:51 pmNazi Hunters [#110Z] Hunting Adolf Eichmann Adolf Eichmann was the SS officer charged with the Final Solution, the man charged with transporting the Jews to the Nazi extermination camps. In 1945, Eichmann was arrested by the Allies, but the next year - unrecognized as the arch villain he was - he escaped and disappeared. Isser Harel, chief of Mossad, Israel's legendary intelligence agency was determined to hunt down Eichmann. His task was to get to Eichmann and put him on trial before rogue members of the Avengers, the group of Jews dedicated to killing all Nazis, got to him first. In Autumn 1957, the Israeli Foreign Ministry got a phone call from the public prosecutor of Hesse, Germany, saying that Eichmann was alive and living in Argentina. The information was passed on to Isser Harel. Harel flew to Argentina to personally supervise the mission with a 30-strong team and on May 11, a Mossad agent grabbed Eichmann and dragged him into a car. A week later, he was drugged and smuggled out of Argentina in an El-Al plane. In 1961, Eichmann was put on trial in Israel, televised before the world, found guilty of crimes against humanity and hanged. duration 51:04 STEREO TVPG
9:44 pmNazi Hunters [#111Z] The Monster and the Butcher Klaus Barbie was head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France in WWII. His job was to crush French resistance and his barbarity earned him the nickname "Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for the deaths of more than 4000 French men and women, Barbie disappeared after the war. "Ivan the Terrible," aka Ivan Grozny, aka Ivan Marchenko, had been a spectacularly brutal Ukrainian guard at the Treblinka death camp. Husband and wife team Serge and Beate Klarsfeld went in search of Klaus Barbie and first found him in Peru. He then fled to Bolivia, but the Klarsfelds did not give up. In 1983, their relentless political pressure paid off and Barbie was jailed in Bolivia for debt. He was returned to Lyons, the site of his most notorious wartime crimes, and was charged with crimes against humanity. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. 4 years later, he died in prison from cancer. The pursuit of Ivan the Terrible called into question the single minded avenging of war crimes. In October 1983, the Israeli authorities heard that a man suspected of being Ivan the Terrible had been found living in Ohio as a retired auto worker. His name was John Demjanjuk. The US deported him and a sensational trial began. It seemed an open and shut case. But then the case unraveled. The evidence from the USSR turned out to have been faked - probably to embarrass the US by showing how it had been harboring war criminals. duration 51:04 STEREO TVPG
10:37 pmNazi Hunters [#103Z] Justice - Sas Style The SAS War Crimes Investigation Team, commanded by Major Eric Alistair "Bill" Barkworth, secretly hunted down Gestapo officers. If one of their targets ran, they shot them in the back and no one asked any questions. This went on for years after the war. But not all ran and Barkworth eventually tracked down the surviving Gestapo executioners and brought them to justice. duration 49:29 STEREO TVPG
11:29 pmThis is Us [#305] A special presentation featuring 3 profiles of World War II vets.
Leading the way is former US Army Force Captain Les Williams. At the height of WWII, a group of highly motivated African American pilots from the original 99th Fighter group flew some of the most challenging and daunting missions of the European Theater. They were known as the Tuskegee Airmen, and their story is more than just about individual heroism but rather about men, who were able to prevail over discrimination and American prejudice and the Nazi war machine. Les Williams was one of those young pilots that went through the training in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Pilot Barbara London served on the home front as one of the original WASPs. Among the very first group of women to fly military aircraft, London ferried everything from fighters to bombers coast to coast as the allies mounted their supreme effort to win the war.
Finally, we profile Sgt. Roy Diaz a survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March and a local Salinas farmer that somehow endured more than 3 years as a POW in the most brutal conditions imaginable. If you would like to meet some real heroes, be sure to watch this episode. duration 29:39 STEREO
12:00 amCharlie Rose [#19034H] (original broadcast date: 02/07/13)
* Benh Zeitlin, Oscar-nominated co-writer and director of the film "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
* Alan Pizzey, foreign correspondent for CBS News duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE


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Lake Region Squeaks By Northfield 44-40
ORLEANS-It wasn't easy, and at times the game looked to be doubt, but the Lady Rangers were able to strap on their work boots, dig deep and grind out a 44-40 win over the Northfield Marauders."Overall, we had a game plan, but our perimeter shooting wasn't what it was the last couple of outings, so we had to find some other places to get points," said LRU coach Mark Tinker. "It was by hook or by crook, but we got the offense when we needed it and our defense created some chances for us."Drew Neal led all scorers with 26 points, while McMullen had a team-high 20 for Northfield.The win moves Lake Region to 15-2, while Northfield moves to 5-13.Next up is a rematch with BFA Fairfax on Thursday in Fairfax at 7:30.For the Full Story, see Wednesday's Express on 2-20-12!


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NEWARK – The state has reached a settlement with Kmart in which the retail giant will pay $302,500, donate $25,000 worth of infant formula to charity, pay for continued unannounced state inspections, and implement meaningful remedial measures to inspect its merchandise, after 19 Kmart stores in New Jersey were found to have sold or offered for sale expired infant formula and non-prescription medications, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa and the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs announced today.
Inspections by Division of Consumer Affairs investigators found a total of 257 packages of infant formula and/or non-prescription medications that were from 9 months to 29 months past the expiration date, but still available for purchase on the shelves at the 19 stores. Investigators purchased a total of 68 expired items. The stores are located in Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Essex, Gloucester, Mercer, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, and Somerset counties.
New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act expressly prohibits the sale of any infant formula or non-prescription drug subject to expiration dating requirements by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, if the expiration date has passed.
Under the settlement, Kmart will submit to several measures intended to prevent its stores from again selling infant formula or medication that has expired.
Kmart will appoint two senior level management employees for 18 months to serve as compliance liaisons with the Division. These employees will conduct unannounced inspections of Kmart's New Jersey stores to identify expiring and expired products, and review the stores' compliance with Kmart's policies regarding the expiration dates of infant formula and non-prescription medication. At least 20 of Kmart's New Jersey stores will be inspected each quarter. The compliance liaisons will then submit quarterly reports to the Division of Consumer Affairs that will include any findings or resolutions, and a full explanation about any expired products that may be found on store shelves. They will also conduct scheduled conference calls with representatives of the Division of Consumer Affairs. At the end of the 18-month period they will submit a final certified report that, among other things, will compile all instances in which expired items were identified at the stores, any actual or recommended changes to Kmart's policies, and an explanation of why such changes were or should be made.
Kmart will also maintain two "date code specialists" in each New Jersey store, for at least the duration of the 18-month period. Those employees will, among other things, inspect all date-coded items on a written rotational calendar. Any breaches they find will be investigated by supervisory personnel within the store, and reviewed by a compliance liaison.
Pursuant to the settlement, Kmart will also provide funding for random, unannounced inspections of its New Jersey stores by the Division of Consumer Affairs, continuing for one year. The Division retains the authority to perform further unannounced inspections as the Division determines necessary.
"Our unannounced inspections revealed expired infant formula and non-prescription medications at more than half of all Kmart stores in New Jersey, including every region of our state. Some products were more than two years past the expiration date," Chiesa said. "This is unacceptable, and a clear violation of our consumer protection laws. This consent order includes a plan by which we will continue to hold accountable every Kmart store in New Jersey, monitor their compliance, and demand results if any store is found to repeat this mistake."
Also under the settlement, Kmart will pay a total of $302,500 to the state, including $255,000 in civil penalties and the remainder to reimburse the state's attorneys' fees and investigative costs. Kmart will also donate $25,000 worth of infant formula, with at least 21 days remaining before its expiration date, to one or more charities that provide direct assistance to infants and their parents or legal guardians.
"When parents buy infant formula and over-the-counter medication for their children, they have the absolute right to receive formula that has not expired, and fully lives up to its advertised nutritional content. When patients buy medication, they expect that it has not expired, and will properly address their symptoms without unduly posing a new health risk," Eric T. Kanefsky, Acting Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, said. "This is a no-brainer. The fact that we found this problem at Kmart stores throughout the state indicated a systemic problem at Kmart that we have addressed through this settlement."
The FDA recognizes infant formula as often being "the sole source of nutrition by a vulnerable population during a critical period of growth and development," and requires that it have an expiration date. Infant formula consumed beyond its expiration date increases the risk that it may not contain the nutrient level required for proper infant development.
Over-the-counter drugs have unique formulations that consist of inactive and active ingredients geared to treat specific diseases. Medications consumed beyond the shelf life indicated by manufacturers, may have undergone chemical changes, may be less effective, and may pose potentially serious health consequences. The FDA mandates that all medication have expiration dates to help ensure the sale and usage of medication occurs within the drug's shelf life.
Deputy Attorneys General Patricia Schiripo and Alina Wells, of the Division of Law, represented the State in this action. Investigator Oscar Mejia in the Office of Consumer Protection conducted the investigation.
Consumers who believe they have been cheated or scammed by a business, or suspect any other form of consumer abuse, can file a complaint with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs by visiting its website or by calling 1-800-242-5846 (toll free within New Jersey) or 973-504-6200.
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This is a sophisticated jacket with cuffed sleeves and stylized front seams. It has a hidden snap front closure and is fully lined. This is the perfect summer jacket, it is stylish and easy to wear. You could make the sleeves in a contrasting color to make a statement, or lengthen the hemline to make a coat.